School: Tang (roll number 8037)
- Location:
- Tang, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Caisil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 483
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- Bread.
In this district bread was baked principally from oats, a bread called oaten-bread. Slaters mill in Ballymahon made flour from wheat. Shrule mill two miles south from Ballymahon locally known as Murtaghs mill made flour also. In former times querns were very common here, but at the present day they are very scarse. In this locality I think there is only one. This quern was sold at Shores auction two miles south of Ballymahon. It was bought by Mr. F. Higgins Tang.
The different kinds of bread made in this district are oaten-meal bread, made with water and oaten meal. The cake was cut in quarters and baked on a griddle over a turf fire. Oaten meal bread is often baked before the fire standing against an iron support called a stand. Potato cake made from boiled potatoes mashed finely mixed with flour and the cake then been cut into quarters and baked on a griddle. This makes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mr M. Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmore, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs M. M. Conlon
- Gender
- Female
